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Posted 3/14/2018 8:07 AM (GMT 0)
Hello.

I Have pancolitis and started vegetarian diet 2 days ago.
I dont eat meat milk and eggs.

I started yesterday but my symptoms was worse than before this diet.
My question is that this is only temporary time? While the symtoms maybe could worse?
How many days i need to wait to good effect? (If it comes)
What is your opinion?
Posted 3/14/2018 8:51 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Hambo,

It can be a wonderful diet for norma people with health bowels. But for people with pancolitis, inflamed bowels, there is just too much fibre for the bowel. It will cause pain and suffering, and could worsen your symptoms.
Cheese, eggs, white bread, milk, are vegetarian foods which are low in fibre. You might be able to live on those foods, as they have the protein you desperately need. You can take a multivitamin also.

But if you are flaring, boiled chicken, broths, and even nutritional drinks might be gentler and easier. When you are feeling better you can then try other things if you want.


It's hard to find a diet that suits your own personal needs especially when you have pancolitis. Sometimes so called 'healthy' diets are the ones that cause the most damage to inflamed bowels, and that seems sad but true.

Wish you good luck, take care.
Posted 3/14/2018 10:23 AM (GMT 0)
Yeah maybe it canbe true but it helped some people here and on other place therfore this my question.
Maybe it is worked to sby...who see this question...
My question is begining of this diet can be worse?and later can be better?
Fibre need to produce bacteries...maybe this diet could help..maybe smile
Posted 3/14/2018 12:24 PM (GMT 0)
Listen first and foremost to your own body. If it doesn't like something then it's going to tell you. And it's screaming.

Some were vegetarian when they contracted a UC. Some later went on a vegetarian diet and claim it helped. For some going on a vegetarian diet makes their symptoms worse. Like everything UC there's no guarantees of success with any one treatment, lots of trtrial-and-error with an emphasis on error.

Vegetarian diets are high in fiber and raw food which can aggravate our UC.

Bone broths and meats are easily digested into nutrienrs we need. Plant fibers are harder to extract.
Posted 3/14/2018 5:22 PM (GMT 0)
There can be a "die off" period, according to what I've read, when drastically switching diets. Certain bacteria that survived off of meat etc now die off and are replaced with new bacteria. I'm sure google will give you some info on vegetarian diets and UC. This article outlines a semi-vegetarian diet for UC and includes some research.

/www.dietvsdisease.org/ulcerative-colitis-diet/

For years, a low fiber diet has been recommended by doctors for patients who are flaring but it is not based on any science, just patient reported symptoms. Many people will report fiber upsetting their bowels during a flare but this is all individual. All the latest research shows fiber being good for UC, in general. For me, eating complex carbs and lactose kills me during a flare because of gas. Easily digested vegetables don't bother me at all.

What exactly are you eating?
Posted 3/14/2018 5:37 PM (GMT 0)
Uniform Charlie:

In this way i way totaly wrong way because i completely avoided all the fiber in the past. I eat lots of cucumber, banana dried things vegetables...
But ahhh...it is not easy i am also gluten free diet..
And i hardly could eat anything...maybe i will eat fish and lot of vegetables but i avoid other meats(beef pork chicken) only fish....
We see...
Easily digested..for example?
Posted 3/14/2018 5:47 PM (GMT 0)
Trying to go vegan at least didn't help my colitis, and might have maybe made things worse.
Posted 3/14/2018 6:46 PM (GMT 0)
I eat cooked vegetables without problem... spinach, carrots, squash, zucchini and peas.

There is no right or wrong. You have to figure out what is best for you. Read the article I posted.
Posted 3/14/2018 7:05 PM (GMT 0)
to me the words the vegetarian and vegan are more about avoidance rather than addition - certainly one could conceivably eat vegetarian or vegan without touching a vegetable - not easy, but possible -

and like charlie says, it's all about what works for you - i was vegan before UC, now i eat animal products -but my diet includes lots of fruits and veggies - i have always done well with veggies -

i would definitely try fruits and veggies, especially cooked veggies, which in some cases are actually more benificail nutrition wise than raw -

there are no rules that that can predict what type of foods will make you colon happy -
Posted 3/15/2018 12:54 AM (GMT 0)
TroubledTurds:
And how are you?
You can control your pan colitis without medicines?
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